AlenkaF commented on code in PR #547:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-site/pull/547#discussion_r1801620231
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+title: "Apache Arrow 18.0.0 Release"
+date: "2024-10-16 00:00:00"
+author: pmc
+categories: [release]
+---
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+The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 18.0.0 release. This covers
+over 3 months of development work and includes [**XXX resolved issues**][1]
+on [**YYY distinct commits**][2] from [**ZZZ distinct contributors**][2].
+See the [Install Page](https://arrow.apache.org/install/)
+to learn how to get the libraries for your platform.
+
+The release notes below are not exhaustive and only expose selected highlights
+of the release. Many other bugfixes and improvements have been made: we refer
+you to the [complete changelog][3].
+
+## Community
+
+Since the 17.0.0 release, JJJJJ has been invited to be committer.
+No new members have joined the Project Management Committee (PMC).
+
+Thanks for your contributions and participation in the project!
+
+## Linux packages notes
+
+
+## C Data Interface notes
+
+
+## Arrow Flight RPC notes
+
+
+## C++ notes
+
+For C++ notes refer to the full changelog.
+
+### Highlights
+
+
+### Acero
+
+
+### Compute
+
+
+### Dataset
+
+
+### Filesystems
+
+
+### GPU
+
+
+### IPC
+
+
+### Parquet
+
+
+### Substrait
+
+
+## C# notes
+
+
+## Java notes
+
+
+## JavaScript notes
+
+
+## Python notes
+
Review Comment:
```suggestion
Compatibility notes:
* NumPy required dependency has been removed from pyarrow packaging
[GH-43846](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43846) and has been
made an optional runtime dependency
[GH-25118](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25118).
* Support for Python 3.8 has been dropped
[GH-43518](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43518)
* No longer used serialize/deserialize Pyarrow C++ functions have been
deprecated [GH-44063](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/44063).
* Passing of build flags to setup.py (e.g. `setup.py --with-parquet`) has
been
deprecated [GH-43514](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43514)
New features:
* Non-cpu work has continued with
[GH-43973](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43973),
[GH-43728](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43728),
[GH-43727](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43727),
[GH-43391](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43391),
[GH-42222](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/42222) and
[GH-41665](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/41665).
* Arrow C++ ``arrow::dataset::Partitioning::Format`` method has been exposed
in
Python [GH-43684](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43684).
* UUID canonical extension type is now supported in Python
[GH-15058](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15058).
* Opaque canonical extension type has been implemented
[GH-43454](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43454).
* ``StructArray.from_array`` now accepts a type in addition to names or
fields
[GH-42014](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/42014).
* New attributes have been added to ``StructType`` in order to access all
its fields
[GH-30058](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/30058).
Other improvements:
* In order to support free-threaded build of CPython 3.13 additional work
has been made:
[GH-44046](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/44046),
[GH-44355](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/44355) and
[GH-43964](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43964). Umbrella issue
[GH-43536](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43536).
* PyCapsule interface now has precedence over others in pa.schema(..)
[GH-43388](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43388).
* Usage of deprecated ``pkg_resources`` in setup.py has been replaced with
``numpy.get_include()``
[GH-43532](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43532).
* Conversion from Arrow to JAX via dlpack as added to the documentation
examples
[GH-44229](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/44229).
Relevant bug fixes:
* ``pyarrow.Table.rename_columns`` has been updated and should have accepted
``tuples``,
not only ``list`` or ``dict``. This has been fixed
[GH-43588](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43588).
* Python reference handling in UDF implementation has been sanitized
[GH-43487](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43487).
* Files included when building wheels have been cleaned (unnecessary files
removed)
[GH-43299](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43299).
```
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